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This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other
uses, see Google (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Goggle or Googol.
Google Inc.

The Googleplex, Google's original and largest

corporate campus
Type
Public
Class A: NASDAQ: GOOGL
Class B supervoting: unlisted
Class C nonvoting:
NASDAQ: GOOG
Traded as
NASDAQ-100 Components
(GOOGL and GOOG)
S&P 500 Components (GOOGL and
GOOG)
Internet
Industry
Computer software
Telecoms equipment
September 4, 1998
Founded
Menlo Park, California[1][2]
Founder
Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View,

Area served

Key people

Products
Revenue
Operating
income
Net income
Total assets
Total equity
Number of
employees

Subsidiaries

Website

California, U.S.[3]
Worldwide
Larry Page (CEO)
Eric Schmidt (Chairman)
Sergey Brin (Director of
Google X and Special
Projects)[4]
Ruth Porat (CFO)
See list of Google products
US$66.001 billion (2014)[5]
US$16.496 billion (2014)[5]
US$14.444 billion (2014)[5]
US$131.133 billion (2014)[5]
US$104.5 billion (2014)[5]
53,600 (Q4 2014)[6]
AdMob, DoubleClick, On2
Technologies, Picnik, YouTube,
Zagat, Waze, Blogger, SlickLogin,
Boston Dynamics, Bump, Nest
Labs, DeepMind Technologies,
WIMM One, VirusTotal
www.google.com
Footnotes / references
[7]

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services

and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing,
and software.[8] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[9][10] an online advertising
service that places advertising near the list of search results.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at
Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56
percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated
Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering
followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the
world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"[11] and its unofficial
slogan was "Don't be evil."[12][13] In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in
Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.[14]

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and
partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software
including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google
Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications
for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company
leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only
Chrome OS[15] for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly
into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers[16] in the
production of its "high-quality low-cost"[17] Nexus devices and acquired Motorola
Mobility in May 2012.[18] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas
City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.[19]
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers
around the world (as of 2007);[20] and to process over one billion search requests,[21] and
about 24 petabytes of user-generated data, each day (as of 2009).[22][23][24][25] In December
2013 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google
sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned
sites such as YouTube and Blogger.[26] Its market dominance has led to prominent media
coverage, including criticism of the company over issues such as search neutrality,
copyright, censorship, and privacy.[27][28]

Contents

1 History
o 1.1 Financing, 1998 and initial public offering, 2004
o 1.2 Growth
o 1.3 2013 onward
o 1.4 Acquisitions and partnerships
o 1.5 Google data centers
2 Products and services
o 2.1 Advertising
o 2.2 Search engine
o 2.3 Productivity tools
o 2.4 Enterprise products
o 2.5 Other products
o 2.6 APIs
o 2.7 Other websites
3 Corporate affairs and culture
o 3.1 Employees
o 3.2 Office locations and headquarters
o 3.3 Doodles
o 3.4 Easter eggs and April Fools' Day jokes
o 3.5 atGoogleTalks
o 3.6 Philanthropy
o 3.7 Tax avoidance

3.8 Environment
3.9 Lobbying
3.10 Litigation
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
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